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These part of the command:
svn status | grep '^\?' => find new file or directory on working copy
sed -e 's/^\?//g' => remove "^" character on the first character of file name
xargs svn add => add file to subversion repository
You can modify above command to other circumtances, like revert addition files or commit files that have been modified. ^_^
Live extension of an ext3 file system on logical volume $v by 200GB without the need to unmount/remount.
Requires that you have 1) a version of resize2fs that contains code merged from ext2online, and 2) kernel support for online resizing. (e.g. RHEL 5)
Output: Version 3.2-0 (for example if you type # aptitude show bash | grep Vers
Depends on the language of your distribution, because the name of the word "Version" in other languages may be different.
This will create an exact duplicate image of your hard drive that you can then restore by simply reversing the "if" & "of" locations.
sudo dd if=/media/disk/backup/sda.backup of=/dev/sda
Alternatively, you can use an SSH connection to do your backups:
dd if=/dev/sda | ssh [email protected] dd of=~/backup/sda.backup
rsyncs files to a server excluding listed files
also a file can be used to exclude common exclude rules and/or to exclude a ton of files, like so:
rsync --exclude-from '~/.scripts/exclude.txt'
where exclude.txt has one rule per line:
*.mp3
*.svn*
On the Mac, the format ifconfig puts out is little different from Linux: the IP address is space separated, instead of colon. That makes parsing the IP address easier. See releated command for Linux/Unix:
http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/651/getting-the-ip-address-of-eth0
Edit the files, each in a separate tab. use gT and gt to move to the left- and right-tab, respectively. to add another tab while editing, type ':tabe filename'
This command will list a CSV list of infected files detected by clamav through squidclamav redirector.
Parses tektronic given csv files for both channel 1 and channel 2 and joins them together. Can be easily used by gnuplot after that.
Replace 'more' command with any command which is in your PATH.
It's pretty common to forgot to commit a files, be it a modification, or a brand new file.
If you did forget something, git add the files you want, and then git commit --amend. It will essentially redo the last commit, with the changes you just added. It seeds the commit message with the last commit message by default.
You probably shouldn't do this if you've already pushed the commit.
This command handles git rm'ing files that you've deleted.
Show only the subdirectories in the current directory. In the example above, /lib has 135 files and directories. With this command, the 9 dirs jump out.